-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Think your Facebook status updates are pretty dramatic ? If you act soon , you may entice a troupe of improv artists to stage them for the world .

`` Stuff Theater , '' happening live until 9 a.m. Thursday , is taking the magical , mundane and sometimes mystifying world of Facebook posts to the stage in a 24-hour performance .

Sponsored by online security company Norton , the experimental project lets Facebook users volunteer their profiles . If selected , a post from their page will be acted out during the event , which began Wednesday morning at a Chicago theater and is streaming live on Norton 's Facebook page .

So , for example , this post -- `` Just bought a tent . Wilderness here I come . '' -- ends up featuring a Davy Crockett look-alike dancing as a gospel choir belts out those words , with feeling .

A dance troupe interprets a photo of chicken wings on a grill . And an opera singer renders `` Is it just me , or does Chicago smell like grape soda tonight ? '' like Pavarotti .

`` We believe it 's truly an experimental way to capture people 's attention in a relevant way , '' said Sally Jenkins , Norton 's vice president of worldwide consumer marketing .

The name of the project is a play on the name of a Norton advertising campaign , `` Stuff . '' Actors -LRB- from improv to Shakespearean -RRB- , singers , musicians , poets , sculptors , puppeteers and balloon artists all have been among those taking the stage so far .

As of 3 p.m. ET , 150 live skits had been performed at Chicago 's Copernicus Theater . Tapping into the city 's rich improv-comedy tradition , performers draw a post and have only a few moments to decide what they 'll do onstage .

`` The performers are doing it on the fly , '' Jenkins said . They were hoping to work in 1,000 skits by Thursday morning .

The folks watching and commenting on Norton 's page seemed amused .

`` This is strangely , strangely addicting , '' one user wrote .

`` This is awesome . Ridiculous , silly , and just awesome , '' said another . The page had more than 170,000 likes as of late Wednesday afternoon .

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`` Stuff Theater '' is acting out Facebook posts live online

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The 24-hour experimental event is streaming on security firm Norton 's Facebook page

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Dancers , artists , improv actors and others have appeared on a Chicago stage